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Socialist Democracy September - October 2003

 

AOCOED DSM:

OUR ROLE DURING FUEL PRICE HIKE

By Panache, AOCOED DSM

The experience of the last 8-day general strike called by the NLC shows the enormous power of the working class.

Our first semester examination was to commence 3 day to the beginning of the strike. While mobilizing students of our school for the strike, the AOCOED students' union leadership branded us as "terrorists, touts, thugs, cultists", etc. We believed that apart from mobilizing students to partake in the strike which is a collective struggle against the hike in the prices of petroleum products, the strike would definitely affect us as students since transport and other amenities would be paralysed as a result. Majority of students don't live around the school area and might find it difficult to get to school and may miss their exams which these so-called union leaders wrongfully were desperate to allow to continue during the strike.

While the strike had come and gone, the DSM AOCOED branch is using this medium to call on the entire students to put pressure on the union to fight for an enabling environment for learning through 24 hours constant light, functional toilets, reduction in the exorbitant prices of handouts, provision of functional laboratories for the science and vocational schools and to fight cultism on the campus.

Socialist Democracy September - October 2003